A Little in Love
By Susan Fletcher
Genre: Young Adult Historical Fiction
Personal Rating: 9/10

This book is the untold story of Eponine from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories of all time and Eponine is my favorite literary character, so when I saw this book I knew I had to read it.

Eponine has been taught her entire life to cheat, lie, and be cruel to the one girl who could have been her only friend. Cosette was a servant to Eponine's family while the girls were very young, until the day Cosette is whisked away by a kind, wealthy man with a promise to keep. Years later the girls meet again in a bloody and rioting Paris, and both are in love with the same man. This book follows Eponine's story as she falls for Marius and tries to do good despite what she has always been taught.

Since Les Miserables is very close to my heart, I was nervous about this book disrespecting the characters, but I thought the author did a very good job of maintaining the integrity of the story while still making it a book a younger audience can read and enjoy. I also loved how this novel more closely follows the plot line of the actual book instead of the musical--although I love both. It is a small book and more simply written, but I love the story it portrayed. It was very
heartwarming.